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- Dana Lyn Baron is an American actress and voice over artist known for her extensive work on the stage and screen.
On-camera career highlights include guest appearances on NBC's This Is Us (2016), Showtime's Shameless (2011), Amazon's Harry Bosch (2014), and FX's Golden Globe, SAG and Emmy Award-winning American Crime Story (2016). She also acted in Netflix's Mank (2020) starring Gary Oldman and starred in the lead role in the Emmy Award-winning comedy short In Passing (2013).
Her versatile voice has been heard in Cartoon Network's Ours pour un et un pour t'ours (2014), as iconic characters in video games (Sonya Blade in Mortal Kombat, Lady Liadrin in World of Warcraft), and as the signature voice of many well-known national brands.
A graduate of UCLA (Mass Communications), Dana studied at the La Jolla Playhouse (including as an apprentice to Bill Irwin) and at the British American Drama Academy at Oxford University.
Her very first job post-college was working as a bartender at the Cort Theatre on Broadway, where Cherry Jones was starring in the play, The Heiress.
She resides in Los Angeles with her husband and her yoga mat.- IMDb mini biography by: PR
- SpouseAdam Blake Finer(June 9, 2007 - present)
- Known for her wide acting range.
- Triple Threat
- A Woman of Many Faces and Voices
- Known for her "ironic eye roll"
- Stars in the film, In Passing (2013), winner of the 2014 Student Emmy for Best Comedy, and winner of the 2014 SCA First Film Award for Best Comedy.
- Her very first job post-college was working as a bartender at the Cort Theatre on Broadway, where actress Cherry Jones was starring in the play, The Heiress.
- Has worked on two projects with J.K. Simmons, but they have yet to actually share the screen.
- After an actor had to be replaced unexpectedly, she learned the role of Friar Lawrence in four days for a production of Romeo and Juliet at Shakespeare Center LA.
- Performed in The Nutcracker for two seasons for the The San Francisco Ballet.
- Keep training, keep training, keep training. As far as I'm concerned, actors are Olympians.
- So much of the work that leads me to my best work on stage and screen comes from my time spent observing humans and humanity and our world.
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